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Through a proposed law the Ministry of Agriculture aims to protect national production by increasing tariffs on grain imports.

According to figures from the Salvadoran Coffee Council, of every 4 hundredweight consumed in the country approximately 3 are imported.The proportion is reflected in data from the 2015-2016 cycle, a period in which about 270 thousand hundredweight was purchased abroad, which contrasts with the 100 thousand hundredweight of local product consumed.

Despite a reduction in the budget, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock plans to allocate $16.2 million to the purchase of agricultural products.

With the budget cut to be approved by the Legislative Assembly, the funds that the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock will have available to tender agricultural packages will be $16.2 million, $1 million less than in 2016.

Maize production declined from 20.4 million hundredweight in the 2012/13 harvest to 15.6 million in the 2015/16 cycle, and yield per cultivated hectare has also declined.

In the case of beans, figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) show greater variability, depending on the bean and crop variety, as some have reported better results.However, bean productivity has deteriorated in recent harvests. Laprensagrafica.com reports that"... performance went from 15.1 hundredweight per hectare on average in the 2014/15 season, to 13.1 in the 2015/16 cycle."

The Ministry of Agriculture has declared an alert over animal health and banned the import of eggs and poultry from several US states due to avian influenza detected there.

From a statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG):

In order to protect poultry and so that El Salvador is not affected by avian influenza, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) has declared an animal health alert across the country, and prohibited the importeggs and poultry from the United States without proper sanitation procedures.

The unification of all entities involved in coffee trading could provide a way out of the financial crisis facing the sector.

In El Salvador internal division in the sector is evident. Currently there are 4 institutions dedicate to coffee: the Centa, Procafé, the Salvadoran Coffee Council and the Coffee Association. Union representatives say that there should be one institution in order to more effectively address financial and technical problems.

A plan has started which includes the distribution of six million coffee plants as part of a recovery strategy for the sector after the attack of rust last year.

The Ministry of Agriculture informed Laprensagrafica.com that "... These six million plants may represent some 2,000 or 3,000 hectares of re-stocking of coffee in the country ..." and they will start to distribute them from 2015.